The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-22
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

By the falling of scaffold at the oarbed- wire
mills, at Allentown. Pa, YESTERDAY, Samuel
Mebus instantly killed and Titus Sterner
fatally injured.
Late on Thursday evening crude petroleum
was struck in the experimental well 10 south
Hutchinson, Kan, depth of $40 feet, thirty
six feet below the l50 feet salt veln
Dick Hendrickson. city marshal of Middle
town. O.. yesterday shot and mortally wounded
Tucker Cox, notorious character of that place.
The shooting done in self-defense
At Middietown, O., Yesterday. Florence
Thompson, a young lady employed at the Gard
ner paper mill. caught by a large wheel.
making sixty revolutions a minute, and dashed
to death.
Dynamite which was being dried at fire ex-
poGed yesterday at Leitcher. n. y. killing
man named Mckenzie and badly injuring man
named Mccormick The men were laborers on
the Cape Breton Railway.
The Kingston. Ont. Board of Education has
issued an order, under the public-school law
expelling from the public school all roman
Catholic children whose parents are supporters
of separate school system
Counterfeit postal cards have been discovered
at Pittsburg that are so skllfully executed that
their detection ia very difficult. This ID the
first attempt made to put spurious postal cards
in circulation. 1t is thought they come from
New York.
The boiler of q portable saw-mll at West
Brownsville, Washington county. Pa, exploded
shortly after II o'clock yesterday. Two broth
ers, John and William Kelley. were instantly
killed, and a man named Mccain is missing.
The mill is a total wreck.
Joseph Mcdonald. while at work on the inter
national bridge at Sault Ste. Marie. on Thurs
dav missed his footing and fell into the river
He was carried into the current and swept over
ST. Mary's rapids. His body was recovered at
the foot Of the rapids an hour later
The reunion of the Thirty-fifth Ohio Volun-
teer Infantry Regiment, at Hamilton, yesterday.
was the best attended OF any since the war.
About $50 survivors were present Gen. H. V.
Boynton, of Washington, and Gen. Ferd Van
derver, of Hamilton, made speeches.
Arrangements are being made at Austin. Tex.
for a weeks festivities in May 1888. to celebrate
the completion of the new State house, the
largest structure of the kind in the country out
side of Washington. DISTINGUISHED citizens
from all the States and from Mexico Will be in
vited to take part.
Fireman Thompson was instantly killed and
three other men seriously injured by the ex-
ploslon of the boiler of a stationary engine In
the Burlington & Missouri yards, at Lincoln,
Neb., yesterday. The accident was caused by
allowing the water to get too low before new
supply was turned on. The three men
badly scaIded and bruised, but it is thought they
will recover.
The startling discovery was recently made
that the roof of the Warrenavenue Baptist
Church. in Boston, had not been properly con-
structed. and in danger of falling at any
time. The sole support for the roof of the great
building consists of three iron rods one and one
half inches in diameter. It is said that it will
nearly 5000 600 to repair the church, which
one of the largest in town.
Every days investigation into the case Of P.
r. Warman, superintendent or the CINCINNATI
Commercial Agency, who disappeared m yster-
ipusly last Sunday and has not yet been heard
from. goes show that the first story OF the af-
fair was highly colored sensation. The open
ing of the office safe by experts yesterday re-
vealed nothing, and thus far all the claims
against Mr. Warman presented the receiver
are less than 5000. Nothing whatever Is known
of Warman'S whereabouts